Trash is a useful development component that you can use to incrementally develop your data flows. Trash discards all incoming records, effectively being a dump bin for whatever you’re testing. (/dev/null if you will)

Incremental development using Trash

1 Test Reader

2 Test Filter

3 Test Reformat

4 ... and so on

About the author

Kevin Scott

Kevin Scott is a Computer Scientist with experience at the NASA Manned Spaceflight Center, the US National Institutes of Health, and in a private Business Intelligence software company. He has a specific interest in teaching and has taught introductory programming to undergraduate business students, flight planning applications to Space Shuttle Mission Controllers, and BI training courses to analysts at dozens of US Fortune 500 companies. He currently works guiding new and prospective customers on the best use of CloverDX in their organizations. He created this series based on a year of interactions with new CloverDX customers.